On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:23:21PM -0400, Brad Dickerson wrote: > Hi, > I was not aware it was evil to call open from a kernel space module. > Why? Please search the archives for the answer to this. > Should I use some other function to access the files on disk from > kernel space? Need the persistence feature of disks in my module. No, you should rewrite your code to not need that feature. Good luck, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/